An infinite board
Pan and zoom freely. People are cards with an accent bar in their clan's colour; zoom out and they turn into coloured blocks and finally a density map.
Wurzelwerk · n. root network
Every family is a root network.
Wurzelwerk is a fast, local-first desktop board for families and clans. Place people, gather them into clans and draw the lines between them – the board keeps it tidy, even with ten thousand people on it.
Features
Draw a family the way you think about it.
Clans as hulls
Clans wrap their members in a coloured hull. A person can belong to several clans – the hulls simply overlap.
Lines that route themselves
Name a line and it picks its style: married is plain, parents of is an arrow, godfather of is dashed. Routes are orthogonal, avoid cards and stay out of each other's way.
One-click auto-layout
Partners side by side, children in the next generation, as few crossings as possible and clan groups packed into a compact board.
Notes & files
Every person and clan has Markdown notes. Drop documents and photos on a person – they are copied into the workspace next to the database.
Yours, on your disk
A workspace is just a folder with an embedded database. No account, no cloud. English and German UI, light and dark appearance.
The board
Clans overlap. Lines find their way.
Mia belongs to both the Weber and the Brandt clan, so the two hulls simply overlap around her. Every line is named, styled by its meaning and routed around the cards.
Under the hood
Rust, a GPU canvas and an embedded database.
Built on iced with a wgpu renderer and an embedded RedDB document store. It is written for large boards from the start.
10 000people on one board, still smooth
GPU-cached static layer, spatial-grid culling, batched paths and level of detail.
A*orthogonal line router
Searches the sparse visibility grid of the cards with a bend penalty, then nudges parallel segments apart.
Sugiyamalayered auto-layout
Barycentre sweeps with exact crossing counts and quadratic coordinate assignment per row.
0 msUI time spent saving
Every write goes to an embedded RedDB on a worker thread, checkpointed when the queue drains.
Hands on the keyboard
- VSelect
- GClan tool
- PPerson tool
- CConnect
- FFit board
- Ctrl+FSearch
- Ctrl+BSidebar
- DelDelete selection
Plant your family tree.
Free and open source. Pick your platform from the latest release.
Or build it yourself: cargo run --release